Favorite books / What are you reading?
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LinkPain said:
Where did you find that?
Is it ours, Serbian edition, or a foreign one? If it's Serbian, who is the publisher?
Edit: Finished Starship Troopers. Amazing book, glad they've finally published it.
Black Feather said:Sabirah said:
Indeed, a very good read.
I'm still waiting for my "A Dance with Dragons"
Seeing as you are the only person I know who read it...
[spoiler:e03f3070cf]What the bloody hell happened to Parvati in the end?[/spoiler:e03f3070cf]
"Who's Buried In Grant's Tomb?"
"Who's Buried In Grant's Tomb?"
The Personal Memoirs Of U.S. Grant
Easy to grasp why this book sold well enough to rescue Grant's family from bankruptcy.
Excellent use of anecdotes to entertain, and enlighten, some just stories and some aspiring to grander metaphor.
The narrative ends during the Johnson administration, not a lot can be associated with events and issues of the Grant Presidency.
Wonder if he had lived longer then the week after finishing this book, if he could have written of his political career with similar wit and candor.
4too
"Who's Buried In Grant's Tomb?"
The Personal Memoirs Of U.S. Grant
Easy to grasp why this book sold well enough to rescue Grant's family from bankruptcy.
Excellent use of anecdotes to entertain, and enlighten, some just stories and some aspiring to grander metaphor.
The narrative ends during the Johnson administration, not a lot can be associated with events and issues of the Grant Presidency.
Wonder if he had lived longer then the week after finishing this book, if he could have written of his political career with similar wit and candor.
4too
UniversalWolf
eaten by a grue.
Got another PK Dick compilation. Currently reading The Man in the High Castle. I'm honestly not sure what it's about yet, but it takes place in an alternate universe where the Axis Powers won World War 2. After the war the Nazis drained the Mediterranean Sea and turned it into farmland, and also unsuccessfully tried to exterminate the entire population of Africa.
If it's about anything so far, it's about a guy in this alternate universe who wrote a novel about an alternate universe where the Allies won the war. Typical entrancing PKD mindbender.
If it's about anything so far, it's about a guy in this alternate universe who wrote a novel about an alternate universe where the Allies won the war. Typical entrancing PKD mindbender.
PK Dick On Internet Archive
PK Dick On Internet Archive
1976 interview with Philip K. Dick.
Fascinating insights about the book business that may still apply.
Has some comments concerning 'Man In The High Castle'.
Can sample in 5 parts or the whole show.
http://www.archive.org/details/ATalkWithPhilipK.DickOnHour25In1976
4too
PK Dick On Internet Archive
1976 interview with Philip K. Dick.
Fascinating insights about the book business that may still apply.
Has some comments concerning 'Man In The High Castle'.
Can sample in 5 parts or the whole show.
http://www.archive.org/details/ATalkWithPhilipK.DickOnHour25In1976
4too
Traité d'athéologie (Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam) by Michel Onfray.
Wintermind
Vault Senior Citizen
UniversalWolf said:
Philip K. Dick is the best. If you haven't yet, read The Penultimate Truth.
UniversalWolf
eaten by a grue.
I don't have that one, but I'll keep and eye out. Thanks.Wintermind said:
My new compilation has The Man in the High Castle, Ubik, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Read the last one years ago, but I gave away my old paperback copy to a friend.
In October, a new Vernor Vinge novel is coming out, "Children of the Sky", a follow up to "A Fire upon the Deep".
I'm very excited.
I'm very excited.
Wintermind
Vault Senior Citizen
I've read all of those. They're quite excellent.
The Penultimate Truth is very... Fallouty. You'll love it. It's also quite short, so you might be able to read it in the bookstore.
The Penultimate Truth is very... Fallouty. You'll love it. It's also quite short, so you might be able to read it in the bookstore.
The Enclave 86
Look, Ma! Two Heads!
Just read "A Canticle of Leibowitz"; a damn good read, was sorry to finish it actually. Possibly the inspiration for "War, war never changes" I'd wager.
The Enclave 86
Look, Ma! Two Heads!
Walpknut
This ghoul has seen it all
Well I am back to reading sacred cow mangas, this time Full Metal Alchemist, and I got to say.... what's up with all the fan worshiping? it's pretty much your average shonen, with interesting ideas but incredibly incompetent execution, boring art, predictable plot twists, Spoiler Alert, the guy who suddenly starts to talk about his family all the time, and that we are todl that aparently he did it all the time even thought he just started doing it is goign to die in two chapters. They might as well have him say "and I am two days away from retirement", the humor is just cringe worthy, very tacked on, the writer doesn't know how to write comedy but she put comedy in anyways. Pretty average shonen, wich means completely MEH.
JPanzer
First time out of the vault
I just finished reading The Postman by David Brin. It was actually better then I thought it would be.
I've read it and found it rather boring. I prefer the anime, of course that could just be nostalgia talking. It was one of the first animes I watched.
ViewedCloth
Still Mildly Glowing
I'm reading Executive Intent by Dale Brown
Just bought Swan Song as after booting up F1 and F2 again I'm in a post apocolypse mood...big book...but from the reviews over at Amazon it looks like a good read.
Finished WWZ last week...a good book...but not my favourite...
I remember when I was about 16 reading a book called Pilgramige to Hell...it had colour plates in it aswell...turns out it became the first in a massive series...my memory of it was that it was a great read, very Fallout like. I checked to see how much my first edition would be second hand and someone is trying to sell one new for $350....well my will be in mint condition in my dads attic so could be described as new..
Finished WWZ last week...a good book...but not my favourite...
I remember when I was about 16 reading a book called Pilgramige to Hell...it had colour plates in it aswell...turns out it became the first in a massive series...my memory of it was that it was a great read, very Fallout like. I checked to see how much my first edition would be second hand and someone is trying to sell one new for $350....well my will be in mint condition in my dads attic so could be described as new..